I think this is my best CIC entry, do you?

This is my last entry for Clearly Inspired Challenge #18 - I think I finally made something within the rules and that I really like!

I stamped the Tree from the Tree-mendous Wishes set.  I stamped the tree with Versamark and then used detail black embossing powder.

The Owl is from the What a Pane set.  I stamped it, colored it with copics and clear embossed it with versamark and clear fine embossing powder.

I used a mask I made with Nestability circles do mask the moon and create the background first with a brayer and Brilliance Black and purple stamp pads.  Then I reverse masked and pounced in the orange full moon.

After all that was done I deckle cut the edges to give it an spookier feel.

Black, Orange and Purple!  Finally I think I got it!
Recipe -
Card size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Versamark, Brilliance
Accessories - Brayer, Black and Clear Embossing powders, Deckle edged cutter.

Challenge try number 2

So I told you the story about my failed challenge attempt - I mean green is neutral right?  So I tried again.

This time I used my "Boo to you" stamp set and the colors of Black, Orange and Purple

I know I got it right this time and I like the card I produced with the set and colors, but that's it I just like it.  Hmmm... I think I will have to have another try.  No one warned me that challenges were addictive!

Recipe
Card size - 4.25 x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Memento

Challenge - Clearly iStamp Clearly Inspired Challenge #18

Sometimes its so simple to say I love you...

Yeah I admit it there is no stamping on this one but when you are on a task to complete 12 cards for your dearly beloved sometimes less is more!  I promise however there is stamping on the next one!

Yup.  That's it Spellbinders Hearts and Scalloped hearts using my Archivers linen open stock red cardstock.  I thought about stamping and adding more and I just thought in this instance less is more.

Recipe
size - 5.5 x 4.25 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Archiver's open stock
Accessories - Spellbinder's Nestabilities

Time to come clean! or Time to celebrate?

This is one of 12 cards I made for my husband for his birthday this year.  Yeah that's right I made him twelve cards.

Now, I'm betting you are wondering why and the reason is that I owe him.  I'm really bad at taking it for granted that he will understand that I didn't get time to make his card.  Everyone else is normally ok its just normally his card so this year I made him 12 to remind him that though I sometimes don't get the card made that he deserves that I do remember that I didn't do it and I do care.

I thought my penance *ahem* theme would be year around.  It just somehow seemed appropriate.  On the inside it reads "Its time to celebrate!"

So I began with time (geddit January? time?) ok I know! You're a tough crowd!  Anyway my DH loves clocks so there is a secondary theme with it.  I've had these Heidi Grace clock face stamps that I picked up on sale ages ago that I have never used (a good run on sentence and rationale to use them!) that I decided to use.  I also broke out my non-sale, new to me, I knew I would need it sometime, number collage embossing folder. *wink wink*

Yeah, its clean and simple, or at least about the only version of CAS I can achieve.

I numbered his envelopes so this was the first card he opened... he knew, that I knew, that he likes clocks so I don't think he cottoned on to the overall theme at that point! 

Alas, time to go.  *GROAN!*

Recipe

size - 5.5in x 4.25in

cardstock - DCWV, Bazzill, Neenah

ink - Memento
color - copics
stamps - Heidi Grace
accessories - cuttlebug embossing folder

I really should have read the rules better!

I rarely if ever decide to do blog challenges but I read one and thought - I think I can do this and use it.  If you have read my ramblings for a while you know I need a muse (and as the band are only available occasionally in my area) and that is the people I create for.  I have to feel it to make a card I just can't follow a sketch and feel happy.  So that said I knew I had a card to make for my mother's birthday and I had a fun color challenge at Clearly I Stamp to play with.

This is what I came up with -

The problem?  There is nothing about green in the challenge - purple, black and if you must orange.  I guess my brain just thought traditional Halloween colors.  I did do another two but I haven't gotten them photographed as yet!  Do you think I should enter it and pray?  Maybe I should just read the rules and see if its one entry per person! LOL

Recipe

Size - 5.5 x 8.5 in

Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source, Archiver's open stock

Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps 

Ink - Memento

Color - Copics

Accessories - Ribbon, Brads, Spellbinders dies

BTW here's the challenge - CIC18 as you can see nowhere does it mention green! LOL!

I have decided to take a hit to the ego! LOL!

I'm just readjusting my blog to make it more friendly and I noticed a counter other than feedjit - thing is it counts views at 512 (and we all know that 510 of those are mine!) whereas my feedjit is around 14,000... so I guess I will humble myself to something more user friendly and although I haven't gotten near 14,000 comments please don't think because you aren't a number to me that you don't count anymore. 

Onwards and upwords at least in the counting department.

I still have oodles of birthday cards to photograph and upload (they are here as they were for my DH) and of course everything I have been working on in between painting bedrooms - 2 down and now we are on the front living room - ceiling done, walls and trim to go!  Take care and enjoy your crafting!

What do Wednesday, Rochdale & Macclesfield have in common?

They are all represented on this card.

So my husband asks me to make a football (soccer to the Americans) card for one of his best friends and this is what I came up with.  I really debated how to do this and thought I really wanted to use my GinaK sets.  The problem was the stripes - Yikes! how was I going to make the stripes?  In the end I went with stamping everything on white and free hand coloring of the shirts.  Luckily (after some investigation) I found out that all the clubs are relatively the same color blue.

Then just when I thought I was done, he asks "can you put our names on them"?  What? what do you mean? OMG? I would have done it different?  Oh I don't want to waste what I have already done!  Don't you know I'm on a time limit here?  So I think for a moment and grab my Just Rite circle stamper and go through my alphabets for the one that is nearest.  Thankfully on a whim I had some white embossing powder.  Versamark and white embossing powder and using my letters half off the block and pressing each down with my fingers achieved the names - so nothing remotely awkward there! *snorts* OH NO!  The white doesn't work with the stripes.  Now what... I think they probably number the striped kits in black so I stamp up and color another striped shirt and try it versamark and black fine embossing powder.  IT WORKED!  HUZZAH!  Then to find the right numbers... where I should have some - too big, too small ooooo these GinaK ones are just right!!! I'm now officially in love with Gina, but don't tell my "I can pull random requests out of the air and my wife will make it" husband.  I outlined the number and letters of the main shirt in gold for that extra punch.  All the shirts stamped and embossed I needed to decide how they were going to be on the "field".  Quickly I grabbed my nestabilities and die cut a double circle out of the middle of a green sheet of 8.5in x 5.5 in cardstock and then cut that in half and spread them out to make the lines.  My husband chose the placement of the shirts (I think he did a pretty good job) and I cut up some chipboard to lift the shirts off the field.  I looked at the card and decided it really did need the football (soccer ball) so quickly stamped on out one and adhered it.

Recipe
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source
Stamps - GinaK (Little Tees, Just So Sporty, Sporty Accessories), Justrite
Ink - Memento, Versamark
Color - Copics
Accessories - white embossing powder, black ultrafine embossing powder, gold pen, chipboard